2017 Erie Soccer League Winter Championships

$400 per team (includes referee fees). Must be paid prior to first game’s kickoff.

Men’s Christmas Soccer Tournament Rules

Games are 40 minutes in length (running clock, no halftime). Matches may end in a draw during the “Group phase” of the tournament. All teams are expected to bring a “primary” and an “alternate” color jersey.

Rosters are capped at 18 players per team. Players may not make an appearance for more than one team. If there is a roster dispute, the player will be ruled as a member of the first team for which he made an appearance.

Any player receiving a straight red card will be ejected from the tournament. He must leave the property immediately. There is no appeal process on straight red cards for this tournament. A player who receives two yellow cards in one match (and thus a red) is suspended for the following match. There is no appeal process on cards. All referee decisions are in fact final with no exceptions.

A team “may” start with a minimum of five players (including goalkeeper).

Neither violent conduct of any sort (on or off the field on the campus of the tournament) nor any sort of verbal abuse (towards the officials and/or tournament staff) will be tolerated and will be grounds for immediate removal from the tournament.

Tournament fees must be paid prior to team’s first game. No pay, no play.

The complete playing rules can be found here. However, the above shall serve as modifications of the rules of competition (ie – if addressed above, the above listed rules supersede the formal rules of competition).

Tiebreaker Format

At the end of the round robin group phase of the tournament, the top two teams group progress to the final. Standings for the group stage is calculated as follows:

3 points for a win

1 point for a draw

0 points for a loss

For standings purposes, a maximum of five goals per match will count towards goal differential. As such, the tiebreaker will utilize adjusted goal differential unless indicated otherwise.

If two or more teams are tied in the standings, we go through the following tiebreaker format. In the event that there are more than two teams tied in the standings, the process shall restart until all ties are broken. More specifically, if there are three teams in a tiebreaker (all teams have identical win-loss-tie standings) the team with the best adjusted goal differential would win that tiebreaker. In the event all ties cannot be settled by item one, we would move to item two for the remaining teams and down the line until all ties are broken.